SADDLES.--Tenders to be lodged at Government Offices, by noon of Wednesday, 31st March, for Supply of 6 Mounted Kits. Particulars at Police Office.

JAMES MACANDREW, Superintendent.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Provincial Government Buildings, Dunedin, the twenty-third day of February, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

Present:

His Honor James Macandrew, Esq., Superintendent;
Arthur John Burns; and
John Hughes, Esquires,

Members of the Executive Council of the Province of Otago, being also Members of the Provincial Council of the said Province.

WHEREAS by Proclamation bearing date the twenty-third day of June last past, made by the Superintendent of the Province of Otago, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Province, and published in the Otago Provincial Government Gazette, No. 553, under the hand of the said Superintendent of the Province of Otago, and under the public seal of the said Province, the said Superintendent did appoint the several districts described in the first Schedule thereto to be Depasturing Districts, and did make certain Regulations for the depasturing of stock upon the Waste Lands of the Crown within the Otago Gold Field: And whereas by an Order in Council, bearing date the sixth day of October last past, published in the said Otago Provincial Government Gazette, No. 574, the said Superintendent, with the advice and consent of the said Executive Council of the said Province, did thereby revoke certain of the said regulations so made and published on the said twenty-third day of June last as aforesaid, and did make the Regulations therein contained in lieu thereof, and in addition to the said Regulations, so made and published as aforesaid: And whereas it is expedient to make another Regulation in addition to the said Regulations so made and published as aforesaid:

Now, therefore, His Honor James Macandrew, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Province of Otago, doth by virtue and in exercise of the powers delegated to the Executive Council of the Province of Otago, and of every and any other power in anywise enabling him in this behalf, hereby make the Regulation following, in addition to the said Regulations so made and published as aforesaid (that is to say):

Depasturing Regulations Otago Gold Field.

25. The Chairman of the Board of Wardens of any depasturing district, or any other person authorised in writing by the Superintendent of the Province of Otago, may at any time require the holder of any depasturing license under the said Regulations to muster his great cattle, or small cattle, for inspection by such Chairman or other person, and every such holder shall, with all convenient speed, proceed to muster the same, and shall afford all reasonable facilities for such inspection; and any holder of a depasturing license who shall fail to comply with this Regulation shall be subject to the penalties provided by the one hundred and first section of the “Gold Fields Act 1866.”

Alex. Willis,
Clerk to the Executive Council.

PROCLAMATION

Declaring the provisions of the “Cattle Ordinance 1864” to be carried out by the Assistant Registrar of Cattle for the Eastern Cattle Registration District.

WHEREAS by Proclamation under the hand of John Hyde Harris, Esq., then Superintendent of the Province of Otago, bearing date the 25th day of January, 1865, and issued under the Public Seal of the said Province, the said Superintendent did, under and by virtue of the third section of the “Cattle Ordinance 1864,” constitute and establish in the said Province of Otago two Registrar Districts, for the purposes of the said Ordinance, to be called respectively the Eastern Cattle Registration District and the Western Cattle Registration District; the said Eastern Cattle Registration District comprising all that area, situate in the said Province of Otago, bounded towards the north by the Province of Canterbury; towards the east by the Ocean; and towards the west by the Clutha River and the Wanaka Lake: And whereas William Logie, Esq., has been duly appointed and now is the Registrar of Brands for the said Eastern Cattle Registration District: And whereas by the fifth section of the said Ordinance it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent to appoint persons to act under the authority and direction of the Registrar of Brands, without pay, to assist in carrying out the provisions of the said Ordinance, to be called “Assistant Registrars of Cattle,” and the Superintendent is empowered, by proclamation published in the Government Gazette of the Province of Otago, to declare which of the provisions of the said Ordinance such Assistant Registrars shall be authorised to carry out: And whereas David Nicol, of Hilgrove Flagstaff, has been appointed Assistant Registrar of Cattle for the said Eastern Cattle Registration District, and it is expedient to declare which of the provisions of the said Ordinance the said Assistant Registrar should be authorised to carry out:

Now therefore I, James Macandrew, Superintendent of the Province of Otago, do hereby proclaim and declare that the said David Nicol, as such Assistant Registrar of Cattle as aforesaid, shall be and is hereby authorised to carry out all and every the provisions of sections twenty-one and twenty-two of the said “Cattle Ordinance 1864.”

Given under my hand and issued under the public seal of the Province of Otago, at Dunedin, this eighteenth day of March, A.D., one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

J. Macandrew,
Superintendent.

No. 26

Police Department,
Commissioner’s Office,
Dunedin, 11th March, 1869.

Sir,—In accordance with the request contained in your letter of the number and date quoted in the margin (No. 5, 18th Jan., 1869), I do myself the honour to forward, for the consideration of the Government, the accompanying “Rules and Regulations for the Conduct, Management, and Supervision (vide Clause 5 of the Act), of the Otago Industrial School.”

These regulations are based on those in use in Victoria, and collated from circular instructions issued from time to time since the first establishment of those institutions in that Colony, with, however, such emendations and alterations as the difference in the size of the relative establishments render necessary.

It will be seen that a blank space is left in certain clauses of these regulations for filling in the name or style of the officer who will have the control of, and be accountable to the Government for, all matters relating to the school—such, for instance, as supervising its expenditure, initiating proceedings against parents of children, inmates of the institution, for the purpose of compelling them to contribute to their support where it is shown that they are in a position to do so, &c. These duties, I think, may very well be performed by some officer of the Government without (or with a nominal) salary; the appointment—I would, however, beg leave to suggest, might be allowed to...